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<span class="top">The Book of Luke</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<a href="B42C001.html">1</a>
<a href="B42C002.html">2</a>
<a href="B42C003.html">3</a>
<a href="B42C004.html">4</a>
<a href="B42C005.html">5</a>
<a href="B42C006.html">6</a>
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<a href="B42C008.html">8</a>
<a href="B42C009.html">9</a>
<a href="B42C010.html">10</a>
<a href="B42C011.html">11</a>
<a href="B42C012.html">12</a>
<a href="B42C013.html">13</a>
<a href="B42C014.html">14</a>
<a href="B42C015.html">15</a>
<a href="B42C016.html">16</a>
<a href="B42C017.html">17</a>
<a href="B42C018.html">18</a>
<a href="B42C019.html">19</a>
<a href="B42C020.html">20</a>
<a href="B42C021.html">21</a>
<a href="B42C022.html">22</a>
<a href="B42C023.html"><font size=+2 color=red>23</font></a>
<a href="B42C024.html">24</a>
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<td class="v">23:1</td>
<td>And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.</td>
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<td class="v">23:2</td>
<td>And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.</td>
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<td class="v">23:3</td>
<td>And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.</td>
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<td class="v">23:4</td>
<td>Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.</td>
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<td class="v">23:5</td>
<td>And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.</td>
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<td class="v">23:6</td>
<td>When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean.</td>
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<td class="v">23:7</td>
<td>And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.</td>
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<td class="v">23:8</td>
<td>And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.</td>
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<td class="v">23:9</td>
<td>Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.</td>
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<td class="v">23:10</td>
<td>And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.</td>
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<td class="v">23:11</td>
<td>And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.</td>
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<td class="v">23:12</td>
<td>And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.</td>
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<td class="v">23:13</td>
<td>And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,</td>
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<td class="v">23:14</td>
<td>Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:</td>
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<td class="v">23:15</td>
<td>No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.</td>
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<td class="v">23:16</td>
<td>I will therefore chastise him, and release him.</td>
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<td class="v">23:17</td>
<td>(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)</td>
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<td class="v">23:18</td>
<td>And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:</td>
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<td class="v">23:19</td>
<td>(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)</td>
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<td class="v">23:20</td>
<td>Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.</td>
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<td class="v">23:21</td>
<td>But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.</td>
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<td class="v">23:22</td>
<td>And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.</td>
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<td class="v">23:23</td>
<td>And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.</td>
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<td class="v">23:24</td>
<td>And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.</td>
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<td class="v">23:25</td>
<td>And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.</td>
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<td class="v">23:26</td>
<td>And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.</td>
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<td class="v">23:27</td>
<td>And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.</td>
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<td class="v">23:28</td>
<td>But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.</td>
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<td class="v">23:29</td>
<td>For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.</td>
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<td class="v">23:30</td>
<td>Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.</td>
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<td class="v">23:31</td>
<td>For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?</td>
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<td class="v">23:32</td>
<td>And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.</td>
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<td class="v">23:33</td>
<td>And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.</td>
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<td class="v">23:34</td>
<td>Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.</td>
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<td class="v">23:35</td>
<td>And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.</td>
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<td class="v">23:36</td>
<td>And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,</td>
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<td class="v">23:37</td>
<td>And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.</td>
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<td class="v">23:38</td>
<td>And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.</td>
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<td class="v">23:39</td>
<td>And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.</td>
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<td class="v">23:40</td>
<td>But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?</td>
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<td class="v">23:41</td>
<td>And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.</td>
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<td class="v">23:42</td>
<td>And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.</td>
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<td class="v">23:43</td>
<td>And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.</td>
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<td class="v">23:44</td>
<td>And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.</td>
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<td class="v">23:45</td>
<td>And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.</td>
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<td class="v">23:46</td>
<td>And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.</td>
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<td class="v">23:47</td>
<td>Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.</td>
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<td class="v">23:48</td>
<td>And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.</td>
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<td class="v">23:49</td>
<td>And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.</td>
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<td class="v">23:50</td>
<td>And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:</td>
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<td class="v">23:51</td>
<td>(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.</td>
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<td class="v">23:52</td>
<td>This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.</td>
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<td class="v">23:53</td>
<td>And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.</td>
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<td class="v">23:54</td>
<td>And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.</td>
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<td class="v">23:55</td>
<td>And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.</td>
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<td class="v">23:56</td>
<td>And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.</td>
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